ObamaCare, Tea Party Targeter Run By Same IRS Exec

Government Overreach: The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of tax-exempt organizations when the unit targeted Tea Party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for enforcing ObamaCare.

As bad as the IRS scandal was, with the taxing body of government using its unequaled authority to intimidate and harass the president's political opposition to aid his re-election, it got worse with the news that the IRS official, Sarah Hall Ingram, who served as commissioner of the Tax-Exempt and Government Entities Division from 2009 to 2012, is now serving as director of the IRS' Affordable Care Act division.

Ingram was so good at her job of suppressing the political speech of administration opponents by using the tax code as a political bludgeon that she was rewarded during her tenure with four bonuses totaling $103,390.

Her annual salary went from $172,500 to $177,000 during the same period, and she was also rewarded with the Affordable Care Act responsibilities.

That the person who rode roughshod over Tea Party groups was put in charge of riding roughshod over our health care is entirely fitting.

The Tea Party was a grass-roots response to the power grab and assault on the Constitution that Obama-Care represents.

It cost the Democrats the House in 2010, and the prime opponent of ObamaCare had to be punished. Her tenure at the exemptions office dovetailed perfectly with the Tea Party's rise.

Now Ingram is running the IRS' ObamaCare enforcement office, and if you think the IRS' "extra scrutiny" of conservative, pro-life and pro-Israel groups is scary, think of the IRS having access to your private medical information.

ObamaCare has 47 separate provisions that involve the IRS. It's the second-largest agency, after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, charged with implementing the Affordable Care Act.

As the House voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act Thursday evening, Speaker John Boehner expressed "serious concerns" that the IRS is empowered as the law's chief enforcer.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says "the IRS part of administering ObamaCare, particularly in the wake of this IRS scandal with regard to suppressing the views of Americans who were critical of the IRS, raises further suspicions about their involvement in the administration of ObamaCare."

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has introduced the "Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013" that prohibits the Treasury secretary, or any delegate, including the IRS, from enforcing the Affordable Care Act.

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